Kenya

Kenya

Khanjan Mehta, director of the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship program and assistant professor of engineering design, has published a book titled "The Kochia Chronicles: Systemic Challenges and the Foundations of Social Innovation."

An ongoing project by students in the College of Engineering's Humanitarian and Social Entrepreneurship program is helping Africans move beyond subsistence farming by developing affordable, inexpensive greenhouses.

"Exploring Potential University Partnerships and Indigenous Beekeeping in Kenya" is the topic of an upcoming presentation to be held at noon on July 20, in 203 Paterno Library on Penn State's University Park campus. The seminar will be presented by Elliud Muli of the South Eastern University College (SEUCO) and the International Centre of Insect Parisitology and Ecology, in Kenya. The event is open to the public and also will be broadcast online at http://breeze.psu.edu/icik.

A group of students from seven Penn State colleges are spending part of the summer in Nyeri, Kenya to work on three humanitarian engineering and social entrepreneurship projects, Mashavu, WishVast and Eco-Village. In this excerpt, Steve Garguilo, (WishVast team) and Jimmy Mesta (Mashavu team) discuss working with the local community and its young residents.

A group of students from seven Penn State colleges are spending part of the summer in Nyeri, Kenya to work on three humanitarian engineering and social entrepreneurship projects, Mashavu, WishVast and Eco-Village. These projects seek to bring technology to people in this region and demonstrate how it can affect their lives in positive ways. In this excerpt, recent College of IST graduates Anthony Zmoda (Mashavu team) and Steve Garguilo (WishVast team), discuss the students' arrival in Kenya.

The "digital divide" and "brain drain" in information technology have affected the U.S. since the mid-1990s. Kenya and other African nations are now facing those same problems more than a decade later as their IT infrastructures continue to improve. However, Penn State researcher Lynette Kvasny also found that IT is also being used to improve the quality of life in Kenya in several ways.